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" The oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving ; Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving ; No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed... "
Angel in the Sun: Turner's Vision of History - Page 175
by Gerald Finley - 1999 - 280 pages
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Paradise Regain'd: A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added Samson ..., Volume 2

John Milton - 1753 - 418 pages
...fee his kingdom fail, Swindges the fcaly horror of his folded tail. The orac|es are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his fhrine ijfa Oil) no more divine, Y^ifb. hollow fhriek the ileep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance,...
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Paradise Regain'd: A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added Samson Agonistes ...

John Milton - 1753 - 374 pages
...his kingdom fail, Swindges the fcaly horror of his folded tail. XIX. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his mrine 176 Can no more divine, With hollow fhriek the fteep of Delphos leivinp-. o t. r No nightly trance,...
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The Works of the English Poets: Milton

Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 320 pages
...his kingdom fail, Swindges the fcaly horror of his folded tail. XIX. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his fhrine Can no more divine, With hollow ihriek the fteep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed...
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Illustrations of Euripides, on the Ion and the Bacchae, Volume 1

Richard Paul Jodrell - 1781 - 286 pages
...herfelf. But now, in thofc appofite and beautiful lines of Milton, The Oracles are dumb, No voice, or hideous hum, Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving; Apollo from his fhrine Can no more divine With hollow ftiriek the fleep of Delphos leaving : No nightly trance, or...
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Poems Upon Several Occasions: English, Italian, and Latin

John Milton - 1785 - 698 pages
...and revenge, in brandiihing the horrid folds of his fcaly tail. XIX. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his fhrine 176 Can no more divine, With hollow fhriek the fteep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance,...
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The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and ..., Volume 12

English poets - 1790 - 342 pages
...his kingdom fail, Swindges the fcaly horror of his folded tail. XIX. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his fhrine Can no more divine, With hollow fhriek the fteep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed...
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Poems Upon Several Occasions: English, Italian, and Latin, with Translations ...

John Milton - 1791 - 668 pages
...Swiniigcs the fcaly terrour of bis folded tail.] This ftrong M mz image The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his fhrine 176 Can no more divine, With hollow fhriek the fteep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance,...
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The baptist Magazine

1864 - 868 pages
...at the birth of Christ. In his song of the Nativity, he sings — "The oracles arc dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof, in words...shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the...
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Paradise Lost and Regained: With the Latin and Other Poems of John ..., Volume 4

John Milton - 1810 - 414 pages
...his kingdom fail, Swindges the scaly horrour of his folded tail. XIX. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words...shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leavin" ODES. 287 With that twice-batter'd God of Palestine ; And mooned Ashtaroth,...
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Paradise regained. An account of Cowper's writings, relating to Milton. A ...

William Hayley - 1810 - 418 pages
...his kingdom fail, Swindges the scaly honour of his folded tail. XIX. The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words...shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving, No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-ey'd priest from...
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